e. While it does have its technical shortcomings, things which were perhaps addressed in the other games, it had an atmosphere…a feeling to it that the other ones never quite nailed. You could tell that every room you entered was painstakingly handcrafted, that each quest you went on was thought out and written by a person rather than being generated.

This is absolutely true and my feelings exactly. I never quite got that same "handcrafted" feeling from Oblivion and Skyrim. Still great games, but lacking in that area.